

“Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.”
― The First Bad Man
― The First Bad Man

“Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You

“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
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